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Magnetic skyrmions are highly mobile nanoscale topological spin textures. We show, both analytically and numerically, that a magnetic skyrmion of an even azimuthal winding number placed in proximity to an s-wave superconductor hosts a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-06 Guang Yang , Peter Stano , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We investigate Majorana modes in a quantum spin chain with bond-dependent exchange interactions by studying its dynamics. Specifically, we consider two-time correlations for the Kitaev-Heisenberg (KH) Hamiltonian close to the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Johannes Bjerlin , Anders S. Sørensen , Stephan Haas

We theoretically study a spin-orbit-coupled nanowire proximitized by a superconductor in the presence of an externally applied Zeeman field ("Majorana nanowire") with zero-energy Majorana bound states localized at the two ends of the wire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Yingyi Huang , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the one-dimensional $p$-wave superconducting model with periodically modulated hopping and show that under time-reversal symmetry, the number of the Majorana zero modes (MZMs) strongly depends on the modulation period. If the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-25 Yi Gao , Tao Zhou , Huaixiang Huang , Ran Huang

We study the low-energy eigenstates of a topological superconductor wire modeled by a Kitaev chain, which is connected at one of its ends to a quantum dot through nearest-neighbor (NN) hopping and NN Coulomb repulsion. Using an unrestricted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 R. Kenyi Takagui Perez , A. A. Aligia

Motivated by recent experiments searching for Majorana fermions (MFs) in hybrid semiconducting-superconducting nanostructures, we consider a realistic tight-binding model and analyze its transport behavior numerically. In particular, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Diego Rainis , Luka Trifunovic , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

The realization of Majorana corner modes generally requires unconventional superconducting pairing or $s$-wave pairing. However, the bulk nodes in unconventional superconductors and the low $T_c$ of $s$-wave superconductors are not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-14 Yu-Xuan Li , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are highly sought-after states with a possible application in quantum computation. Here, we show that vortex-core MZMs can carry a nontrivial angular momentum. This establishes new `flavors' of Majorana modes,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-19 Giulia Venditti , Christophe Berthod , Louk Rademaker

We show that confined Majorana fermions can exist in nanowires with proximity induced s-wave superconducting pairing if the direction of an external magnetic field rotates along the wire. The system is equivalent to nanowires with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Morten Kjaergaard , Konrad Wölms , Karsten Flensberg

Proposals for realizing Majorana fermions in condensed matter systems typically rely on magnetic fields, which degrade the proximitizing superconductor and plague the Majoranas' detection. We propose an alternative scheme to realize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Omri Lesser , Karsten Flensberg , Felix von Oppen , Yuval Oreg

Recent advances in quantum dot platforms have opened new pathways for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs) and simulating topological quantum computation. Here we propose an experimentally feasible setup for implementing topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-22 Bradraj Pandey , Satoshi Okamoto , Pontus Laurell , Stephan Rachel , Elbio Dagotto

Recent studies propose Majorana polarization (MP) as a tool for identifying topological Majorana bound states (MBS). We analyze MP in two systems: a one-dimensional (1d) semiconducting nanowire and a quasi-1d system, both with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Shubhanshu Karoliya , Sumanta Tewari , Gargee Sharma

Braiding and fusion of Majorana zero modes are key elements of any future topological Majorana-based quantum computer. Here, we investigate the fusion dynamics of Majorana zero modes in the spinless Kitaev model, as well as in a spinful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Themba Hodge , Tuan Kieu , Jasmin Bedow , Eric Mascot , Dirk K. Morr , Stephan Rachel

Altermagnetism provides new routes to realize Majorana zero modes with vanishing net magnetization. We consider a recently proposed heterostructure consisting of a semiconducting wire on top of an altermagnet and with proximity-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Andreas Hadjipaschalis , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano

A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling and coupled to a superconductor can be tuned by an external Zeeman field into a topological phase with Majorana zero modes. Here we theoretically investigate how this exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Jorge Cayao , Pablo San-Jose , Annica Black-Schaffer , Ramón Aguado , Elsa Prada

We investigate electron transport through multiterminal networks hosting Majorana bound states (MBS) in the framework of full counting statistics (FCS). In particular, we apply our general results to T-shaped junctions of two Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Luzie Weithofer , Patrik Recher , Thomas L. Schmidt

We propose an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer consisted of two topological superconducting chains (TSCs) to generate coherence of Majorana qubits, each qubit is made of two Majorana zero modes (MZMs) with the definite fermion parity. We obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Fei-Lei Xiong , Hon-Lam Lai , Wei-Min Zhang

Strong Zero Modes (SZMs) are (approximately) conserved quantities that result in (approximate) double degeneracies in the entire spectra of certain Hamiltonians, with the Majorana zero mode of the transverse-field Ising chain being a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sanjay Moudgalya , Olexei I. Motrunich

We explore the tunneling transport properties of a quantum dot embedded in an optical microcavity and coupled to a semiconductor-superconductor one-dimensional nanowire (Majorana nanowire) hosting Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at their edges.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 L. S. Ricco , V. K. Kozin , A. C. Seridonio , I. A. Shelykh

The zero-bias peak (ZBP) is understood as the definite signature of a Majorana bound state (MBS) when attached to a semi-infinite Kitaev nanowire (KNW) nearby zero temperature. However, such characteristics concerning the realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 V. L. Campo , L. S. Ricco , A. C. Seridonio